""---If an operational system, or a 'system of system,' can be riddled with non-compliant parts and yet be safe from Y2K failures and another system filled with all "compliant" parts can fail in many unpredictable ways, what is the value of compliance as a guiding principal or a reality? Less than none. As it happens, the muddled thinking that went into the use and abuse of the concept of compliance has more dire consequences than even this indicates. For it plays into another blind spot of traditional remediators and the Y2Klatura. what I call the Independence Fallacy of Y2K.--""

-- d----- (dciinc@aol.com), December 01, 1999

Answers

--d----

And they call the embeds a wild card.

-- kevin (innxxs@yahoo.com), December 01, 1999.

Yeah.... great stuff. And he uses "hew to" in the .3 excerpt! What vivid "English". "d", can you provide links to the entire excellent article by Mr. Way?

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-- SH (squirrel@huntr.com), December 01, 1999.

Link

-- glitch (just@waiting.com), December 01, 1999.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roleigh_martin/end_game_criti que.htm

-- glitch (just@waiting.com), December 01, 1999.